Hey Seattle:You're one of the healthiest cities in the USA February 13, 2018

Chronicle
staff

News
& expert analysis

(NATIONAL) – With
health care costs rising and U.S. life expectancy declining for the
second year in a row, those
busy little beavers over at the
personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of
2018’s
Healthiest and Unhealthiest Cities in America.

And
guess what? All you trendy, high paid, high-tech,
have-lunch-in-the-Amazon-jungle-sphere boys and girls in Seattle
who’ve driven up housing prices so high ya gotta be a
bazillionaire to buy a World War 2 starter dump,have
propelled
the former Jet City into the top 5 of the healthiest cities
in the You-S-Of-A.

That’s
because all you folks in high tech have really, really good health
care plans and don’t smoke and
don't cuss and go to church on Sundays, ergo God is on your side.
(There my be other reasons as well, hard
to say about these things.)

To
identify the places where health is a priority, those
WalletHubbers
compared more than 170 of the largest U.S. cities across 40 key
metrics –
ranging from the from
cost of a
doctor
visit to fruit and vegetable consumption to fitness clubs per capita
to
how many of your employers have jungle spheres to hang out in. (Just
kidding on the last one. Wanted to see if you were reading down this
far)

Check
it out dudes & dudettes.

Healthiest
Cities

Least
Healthy Cities

1

San Francisco, CA

165

Memphis, TN

2

Seattle, WA

166

Corpus Christi, TX

3

Portland, OR

167

Jackson, MS

4

San Diego, CA

168

Detroit, MI

5

Washington, DC

169

Fort Smith, AR

6

Burlington, VT

170

Gulfport, MS

7

Scottsdale, AZ

171

Shreveport, LA

8

Honolulu, HI

172

Augusta, GA

9

Irvine, CA

173

Laredo, TX

10

Denver, CO

174

Brownsville, TX

Key
Stats

Overland Park, Kansas, has the
lowest share of physically unhealthy
adults, 6.8 percent, which is 2.8
times lower than in San Bernardino, California and Detroit, the cities
with the highest at 18.7 percent.

Laredo, Texas has the
lowest cost per doctor’s visit, $62.78, which is three times
less expensive than in Boston, the city with the highest at
$188.00.

Burlington, Vermont has the
lowest share of adults eating fruit
less than once daily, 31.7 percent, which is 1.8
times lower than in Little Rock, Arkansas,
the city with the highest at 56.2 percent.

Bridgeport, Connecticut, has
the lowest average monthly cost for a
fitness-club membership, $10.00, which is 7.3 times
less expensive than in New York, the city with the highest at
$73.48.